3 employees were, after being explicitly told by Facebook not to do so.
That's not what the article said.
> neither coordinated nor directed from the company. From an internal post at the launch: “We, unequivocally, DO NOT want Facebook employees to engage in leaving reviews for the products that we sell to Amazon.” We will ask them to take down.
What happened was I skimmed the article looking for support of what you said, and didn't find it initially. But then again, my eyes tend to blur when reading BI articles.